Cornmarket, Bath
Introduction
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Cornmarket, Bath
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 8 Dec 2019
"1855. By GP Manners ... The size of the market building and its attached yard indicate the importance of Bath as an agricultural centre at this date, and of this part of the city as a long-established market area. Cotterell's 1852 plan of Bath shows there to have been a cattle market a short distance to the south" https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1395552 . The building is also shown under scaffolding seven years earlier at Image On the left is 62, Walcot Street https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1395551 , "remodelled to form entrance to corn market. c1770 with alterations of 1855 by GP Manners" Image . Behind the Cornmarket is The Tramshed Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.385204
Longitude
-2.359203